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Board of Directors

12 a. The Board of Directors shall consist of six (6) officers elected or chosen according to bylaw and shall include the President, the Vice-President, the Secretary, the Treasurer plus two other board members.

b. All members of the Board of Directors will be Active Registered members.

c. The President of the Association shall be the Chairman of the Board of Directors.

d. No person employed by the Association shall be eligible for any elected office of the Association.

e. No officer shall be required to vacate his office by reason of his being concerned, interested in, or participating in any contract for work done for the Association; nevertheless, he shall not vote in respect to any such contract. He shall disclose his interest to the Board of Directors.

f. Officers shall be elected for terms of two years or until their successors are elected or appointed.

g. The officers shall be nominated and elected from three geographical regions, which are the Pacific region, including British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut; the Central region, including Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec; and the Atlantic region including New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador.

h. Three members of the Board shall be elected each year, one from each region.

i. The Board shall elect from its members a President, a Vice President, a Secretary and a Treasurer, each year.

j. The office of a Director of the Association shall be vacated:
i. by notice of resignation in writing to the Association;
ii. if the Director is convicted of any criminal offence; or
iii. if the Director is grossly negligent in carrying out the duties of a member of the Board of Directors.

k. Removal of an officer from the Board of Directors under section 12(j)(iii) requires a unanimous vote by all other members of the Board of Directors.

l. The office of an officer shall ipso facto be vacated if he ceases to be concerned with Cardio-Pulmonary technology.